Bitcoin (BTC)

Bitcoin’s price has broken above a significant moving average which has been acting as a resistance over recent weeks. The market seems ready to rise higher in the coming week if the remaining negative factors do not hinder the forming momentum. Technical Analysis By: Edris The Daily Chart: On the daily timeframe, the price has closed above the 50-day moving average to the upside at last, after failing to do so and getting rejected multiple times over the last few weeks. This...

According to the latest edition of Arcane Research, the entire market appears to be stabilizing even though there’s still some uncertainty left. Having said that, all eyes are on DCG’s next steps, which can further intensify downward price action. Bitcoin Volatility Nearing 30-Months Low Bitcoin’s current price action was defined as stale as its volatility slumbered toward rare lows. Data suggested that the largest coin’s 7-day volatility reached lows not seen for two and...

Republican Senator of Wyoming Cynthia Lummis says what happened with FTX is exactly why Congress needs to begin paying attention to cryptocurrency. She cited the bipartisan bill she established in early 2022 with New York congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand (a democrat from New York) and said U.S. regulators need to give the bill their full attention so that what happened with the exchange can never happen again. Cynthia Lummis on the Future of Crypto in Congress Lummis is...

Creditors of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox have received more time to select and register how they wish to receive compensation from the company. According to a document from the exchange’s trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi, the registration deadline, which was previously set as January 10, 2023, has been extended to March 10 (Japan time) after receiving approval from the court. “The deadline for the Selection and Registration was January 10, 2023 (Japan time) but...

« Nassim Nicholas Taleb vient de délivrer dans l’Express une interview à Laetitia Strauch-Bonart, par ailleurs autrice d’un De la France remarqué et dont on aurait aimé lire les commentaires. Ce texte est publié sous un titre tout en finesse et qui malheureusement le résume bien : “Le bitcoin est un détecteur d’imbéciles”. Comme il me paraît délicat de réserver de telles insultes à un cercle...

After failing to challenge $17,000 for several straight days, bitcoin finally touched that level, marking a multi-week high. The altcoins also turned green on Saturday, with impressive gains from Ethereum Classic and Lido DAO. Bitcoin Touches $17K The end of 2022 was quite calm for the primary cryptocurrency, and the first day of the new year didn’t bring any more excitement either, as it remained at around $16,500. The situation started to change on Monday with a minor push...

The total cryptocurrency market capitalization managed to increase by around $17 billion in the past seven days. Interestingly enough, the gains came mostly on the back of altcoins. This is highlighted in the declining Bitcoin dominance – a metric that’s commonly used to gauge BTC’s share relative to that of the rest of the market. At the time of this writing, the BTC dominance sits at 38.1%, having peaked at over 38.4% last week.  Bitcoin’s price increased by a total of...

DCG (Digital Currency Group) – the crypto company that owns Grayscale – is allegedly $2 billion in debt, giving traders and crypto analysts a lot to be anxious about. DCG Is Allegedly Dealing with Tons of Debt Barry Silbert – the man who founded DCG – stated in an interview: We have weathered previous crypto winters. While this one may feel more severe, collectively we will come out of it stronger. The goal was to try and calm people’s nerves, though this is easier said...

The US continued to beat expectations in terms of new jobs added for the month of December, according to the Labor Department. The unemployment rate dropped to historic lows. The report for December 2022 indicated that the unemployment rate is down to 3.5% from 3.7% the previous month. At the same time, the world’s most powerful economy added 223,000 jobs in December, which was higher than Bloomberg’s estimates of 200,000. Overall, the US finished the year with 4.5 million...

Ben Mezrich is an author who wrote the book, “Bitcoin BTC Billionaires,” which talks about the rise of the Winklevoss Twins from their early days trying to develop what would eventually turn into Facebook to their adult lives as some of the biggest bitcoin bulls out there. Ben Mezrich Is Writing a New NFT Book Right now, the book is being adapted into a film and is in pre-production, meaning things are still being planned out and the project is in its earliest stages....